meta_pixel
Tapesearch Logo
Log in
Retronauts

Retronauts Episode 224: Virtual Boy Revisited

Retronauts

Retronauts

Games, Leisure, Technology, Video Games

4.52.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Jeremy Parish, Bob Mackey, Caitlin Oliver, and Brian Clark convene to discuss Nintendo's least-successful console ever: The benighted Virtual Boy. And it's not as dire a discussion as you might expect—in fact, you might even call us fans.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0

This weekend retinots were in your face and your eyes hurt.

0:26.1

Hi everyone, welcome to another episode of Retrinots. I'm Jerry Parrish.

0:29.8

Stumbling over my words and I barely even had anything to drink. What the hell?

0:33.4

And I know why I'm stumbling over my words. It's because this is like the fourth podcast I've recorded.

0:38.8

In addition to two panels here at Midwest Gaming Classic 2019, I'm so tired and

0:45.8

that's okay because there's other people here who are gonna help keep me going along.

0:51.2

Who are these other people? That guy over there. Hey, it's the boy who's virtually a man, Bob McEgg.

0:56.8

I'm sorry. I thought of that one in the elevator. Wow. So what do we know about you?

1:02.6

How old are you, Bob? I'm still waiting for my bar mitzvah and also to convert to Judaism.

1:06.7

That comes first. Right. That's a tricky one. It's very complicated this process. I've

1:10.2

learned this. Also, who's here? I hear some other voices. This is Caitlin. Caitlin Oliver

1:17.9

at SA Caitlin on Twitter and the lady what broke Splatterhouse World Records and the

1:24.1

Namature Gaming Historian. Fantastic. And finally, I am not true ending. Let's retry. This is

1:30.7

Brian Clark of 1 million power. Okay. Wow. I didn't come with anything punchy. I'm just punch

1:36.5

drunk. So I guess that's good enough. That's the Game Boy experience or the virtual boy experience

1:41.2

in a nutshell. Sorry. I've been talking a lot about Game Boy. So I might accidentally mix up the

1:46.0

names of my systems. That is because this is being recorded on the occasion of Game Boy's

1:50.5

30th anniversary and what better way to celebrate that than by talking about the colossal failure

1:55.4

that followed in its footsteps. That's right. Virtual Boy.

2:21.1

So yeah, I think a few years back we did or maybe I did a virtual boy micro episode which was

2:30.4

you know 10 minutes long. That's not very long. And I would like to talk properly about Game

2:36.3

of Virtual Boy. Now that I have spent some time with the system and have a better understanding of

...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Retronauts, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Retronauts and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.

Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.